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...hands-on family life he craved. After the publication of The Drowned World in 1962, he could afford to stay home, writing more postapocalyptic tales. Then, the following year, Mary died of pneumonia. This loss struck Ballard as a bitter and unexplained crime of nature, and it would obsess him for decades. But it didn't damage his appetite either for fatherhood or the typewriter. In fact, he writes, "My greatest ally was the pram in the hall...
...seemingly far more important question of what impact Presidents have on the economy has been studied less, with far less conclusive results. See, it's not just journalists who obsess over campaign horse races and neglect issues. It's economists and political scientists...
...relatively unnoticed. No matter. Purple still reigns. Just ask Cam’ron. So don’t blame The-Dream for being in thrall to Prince. Any aspiring R&B singer would do well to study an album like “Dirty Mind,” to obsess over “1999,” to worship “Purple Rain.” However, you can blame The-Dream for not looking beyond Prince—and a handful of other influences—on his lifeless debut, “Love Hate...
...which have been produced.‘SENSE OF VERTIGO’Evans says the writing process is one that she almost doesn’t control.“I’ve found that the subject matter chooses us. Playwrights tend to have things that obsess them whether try acknowledge them to or not,” says Evans. “My plays all deal with the collision of the interior and poetic world with external world of politics. They mix a kind of poetic intensity with gritty real world situations.”For aspiring playwrights...
They use up vacation time, obsess over schedules and plot the shortest walking path between theaters. And for ten days each September, they disappear into the dark for hours at a time, emerging dazed or euphoric, tearful or bored before heading back to do it again. True festival junkies see three, four, even six movies a day, often eschewing the blockbusters-to-be in favor of films that won't make it to DVD, much less mainstream theaters. We asked a few veterans about their tight schedules, the days before advance ticket sales, and the rush they get from...